Resources

After seeing Matt Little's Pedal Power 'Cuppa-Meter' machine at the Creator Fair this year I thought it was time to get to know the man behind the name a little better.

We've seen traffic light cups in a few schools now, where students put a green, amber or red cup on their desk to inform the teacher whether they understand what they've just been taught. Despite being low tech and low budget, anecdotal evidence shows that there might be a reluctance to use them as they are so visible to peers. Enter...SmartBand

A crossover is the name given to a circuit that splits an audio signal into separate frequency bands. This allows different frequency bands of the output from an amplifier to be sent to different speakers instead of all being sent to one speaker.

It's Black Friday and we've discounted items from our Electro Fashion and Educational Electronic Project Kits

New products from Bare Conductive including the excellent Arduino compatable Touch Board and Merry Restivtivities Flashing Card Kit.

Five new products for you this time. Kitronik now stock three new product from Sparkfun and AAA batteries in 4 and 40 packs

A look back at the 3rd annual Derby Mini Maker Faire.

The festive season approaches and we thought we'd share an interesting LED candle project sent to us by Graham from the 17th Barrow St Perran's Scout Group.

At Kitronik we're very excited about wearable technology and e-textiles, we stock lots of great e-textiles kits including Kitronik's Lilypad wearable Arduino.

This project uses our free pre-cut foam decoration and an easy sew LED to make a simple light up Christmas decoration. The lack of specialist skills needed to make this project make it quick to make and one that is ideal for beginners or anyone wanting an e-textiles project that is simple.

There have been stories in the news recently reminding people of the dangers of the dangers of coin cell, or 'button' batteries around young children, and to help remind customers we are now including the following reminder with all orders containing such batteries.

Our new 5V LED Desk Lamp Kit is a great introduction to electronics and product design. This super bright kit containing 9 x super flux 5mm white LEDs and resistors to power them properly. This bright kit makes a brilliant and straight forward to make lighting unit that can be fitted to most projects very easily and could be used in lamps, models or as a USB powered light for your desk.

On the 16th of October Kitronik were invited to the iDEAS hub in Bradford by ICSAT (Inspirational Curriculum Support Advice & Training) to talk to teachers about electronics and to take part in a twilight session looking at the new curriculum.

The Digital Sandbox from SparkFun explained.

Our FM Radio kit has had a complete redesign and as a result audio quality is better than ever. Make a radio out of anything!

As it's the new series of The Apprentice we decided to let Geoff finish work before his usual 10pm. We hadn't anticipated though that he'd actually like the principal behind Team Tenacity's Little Smart Jacket (although he preferred the look of the boys' sweater), and so this morning I arrived in to find him busy working away on his own Little Smart Sweater.

Circuits don't have to be hard, cold and made entirely of metal and plastic they can be soft, cute, colourful, creative and even fluffy

After a redesign, our best selling Mono Amplifier Kit hits Version 2.

The Crafty Robot packed up his Fizzbits and paper cutter and flew to Rome to join 2500 other makers at the official Maker Faire Europe.

The last (for now) of our new breakout boards are now on the shelves. We complete the set with an Ambient Light Sensor Breakout Board, a Current Sensor Breakout Board (ACS711) and a Relay Control Breakout Board.